I try to stick to a weekly budget and this morning I found myself with a whopping $2.90 in my pocket. So the plan was to get a $1.60 coffee at Zocalo (the fabulous West Philly restaurant now has a coffee shop, serving La Colombe, yum!) and go nuts with the rest of my fortune [...]

Every single time I enter Starbucks:
“Hi, what can I get started for you today?”
“Hi, could I please have a large coffee?”
“Venti coffee…?”
“Um, yeah, whatever dude.”
Grievance #1: I know many of your drinks require special machines, beakers, mortar and pestles, etc. to prepare, but stop with the word “started.”  How about what can you get me [...]